front splitter source for seven type car????.....

[knightly]

Does anyone have any links to companies that supply the front fibreglass splitters for the seven/caterham/westfield style of kit car?......like a small front apron that attaches to the nose-cone.

[steve_d]

A splitter on a normal bodied car is there to try and make as much air as possible flow over the car to increase downforce. As a seven has a narrow, blunt/hollow nose I doubt a splitter will work at all.

Dons asbestos coat.

Steve

[Sam_68]

As Steve D says, a splitter on its own is probably not going achieve much beyond making the car a little heavier and giving you something to knock off on kerbs.

However... Westfield did an 'aero' package for their cars a few years ago, which included a front splitter/shovel nose, side fairing to enclose the exhaust and a 'whale tail' moulding for the back end. They probably have the moulds, still, if you ask nicely!

[Russ Bost]

Seem to remember the cct seven style car has a splitter on the nose

[langy]

A well angled number plate should do the trick

[Locoblade]

Like the SBD Westie?





Like this one, most of the splitters you see on Locaterfields are extensions of a flat (usually alu / composite honeycomb) floor, I doubt it gives huge amounts of downforce but it might negate the lift you get from the underside of the nosecone at high speed.

Edited by Locoblade on Tuesday 27th February 20:26

[Steve_D]

Locoblade said:

......Like this one, most of the splitters you see on Locaterfields are extensions of a flat (usually alu / composite honeycomb) floor, I doubt it gives huge amounts of downforce but it might negate the lift you get from the underside of the nosecone at high speed......

Yes, have to agree extending the flat floor right to the front of the nose looks like it could benefit. Not much but anythings worth having provided it doesn't cost too much.

Steve

[tiger_drew]

vindicator do a fornt and rear spoiler pack for their cars you my be able to make that work

Looks more like a F1 style spoiler extending out towards wheels not like the extended floor but you could probably combine them

[BUDE DAVID]

Fluke Motorsport have just introduced carbon-fibre nosecone 'winglets', as used on some caterhams apparently, into their range.
Or, why not manufacture your own wide front end which incorporates fixed wheelarches and a full width front air-dam/spoiler, using the existing nosecone attachment points, in the way that Tim Dutton did with the Dutton Pheaton? (only make it more modern in style obviously).

Edited by Bude David on Monday 5th March 13:00

[bude david]

Since no-one seems too interested in the 'modern dutton phaeton' front end idea let me just say out loud what I have been thinking to myself the past few days (note to self; never try subtlety on PH forums)...

Ahem

"I wonder what a certian Mr. Italo F.Sciacca would think of the idea to design a full-width-one-piece-front-end for sevenesque cars - HINT HINT!"

I have a seven with easily detachable bodywork, I've always wanted to have a go at fibreglass moulding and someone did say that it would be great to see something designed on PH making it to road-going reality, but I'm a only a print designer and so would need someone with 3d visualisation skills to whip up a few sketches for me HINT HINT!...

[bude david]

OK, here goes a couple of rough biro skethces I did on a napkin over lunch. One's a kinda hot-rod front grill version and the other is a bit of a cross between the michelak C7 and the Toniq nose treatment.
Well thats what I think anyway....